Back on topic .....
I worked 12 hr nights, wed-fri 36 hrs every week. Fine you might think but takes you a few days to get over em by which time youre back there ...
Latest proposal was that every 2 weeks you`d put in an extra shift - probably a saturday night - for nowt .... THATS RIGHT - NO EXTRA PAY !!
Sorry but im of the opinion that youre paid to do a job, the company pays you to do ANYTHING you`re capable of. I dont have an issue with that but i certainly wasnt going to be there for nothing .

I took redundancy rather than working 24 hours a month for nothing ...

Might be time to look elswhere mate as they obviously dont value youre skills

I worked 12 hr nights, wed-fri 36 hrs every week. Fine you might think but takes you a few days to get over em by which time youre back there ...
Latest proposal was that every 2 weeks you`d put in an extra shift - probably a saturday night - for nowt .... THATS RIGHT - NO EXTRA PAY !!
Sorry but im of the opinion that youre paid to do a job, the company pays you to do ANYTHING you`re capable of.

I took redundancy rather than working 24 hours a month for nothing ...

Sorry you lost your job dude. But from the fact you were made redundant, it sounds like the extra shift with no extra pay was probably a survival attempt.

I know first hand of companies where the workforce has taken a 10% paycut for a year to avoid redundancies. It's not nice, but it's the lesser evil than job losses I guess.

Nah mate, i understand what youre saying but it was a good time to go - id been there 16 years and seen it being gradually run down over 4 by the current owners. The survival of the company is in the hands of clowns with no financial background and no respect for their (very) skilled workforce. They made some ridiculous oversights when buying kit - 2nd hand web press from Belgium - didnt realise all the computers running it were in Flemmish ... Cost em an extra 60k to get them reprogrammed in english. That and other oversights put the project Waaay overbudget and their solution was to cut a few jobs.
I appreciate about taking pay cut to keep the place going but they are pretty sound financially and have made good profits over ALL the previous years i know of. Just an knee-jerk reaction to make the books look good but to be 100% honest i was pleased to get out.